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I take 500mg a day.
Scientists Locate Revved Up Chemical That Mimics Red Wine
Scientists at the Sirtris Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, Massachusetts under the direction of Christoph Wesphal have located chemicals that mimic resveratrol, the key ingredient in red wine. The Sirtris scientists published their findings in the current update of Nature-Signaling Gateway on November 30, 2007.
Previous studies on the positive effects of the chemical resversatrol found in red wine find that it acts as protection against fatty diets and resultant cell degeneration that occurs in the aging process. The main problem with resversatrol is that it takes a large amount of the chemical for humans or animals to appreciate the effect.
I’m waiting for this one.
I need something that will get me across the next ten years in good condition and health. After that, the state of the art will begin to simply brute-force life-extension systems into the human body via nanotech or some other technology or technologies.
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“The main problem with resversatrol is that it takes a large amount of the chemical for humans or animals to appreciate the effect.”
Resveratrol is already available in 500mg and 1000mg capsules. So this is not an issue if you want to appreciate the effect now.
Just google “Resveratrol 1000mg Vcaps”
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I’m using the 500mg vcaps from Biotiva, Anthony, but thanks for the pointer. I’m checking it out now.
I wish it was a bit cheaper, but…
There’s also the issue of bioavailability. It’s pretty controversial at the moment, and not a lot of studies to shed any enlightenment.
How about drinking red wine?
Dave, the lastest thinking is that red wine may not be responsible for the “mediterranean paradox.” One reason is that red wine doesn’t provide enough resveratrol to match the levels used to get results in clinical studies. In order to duplicate those doses, you’d have to drink hundreds of bottles of red a day - an admirable, if doomed, project.
I agree about the bioavailability issue, the latest study is still up in the air and is being done by Sirtris using their srt501 resveratrol formulation.
They are using 2.5 and 5 grams. You can see that on slide 23 here:
http://www.revgenetics.com/sirtris.htm
Anthony
Forgive me if I’m being obtuse, but isn’t alcohol the key ingredient in red wine? ;8-}
You’re not being obtuse. It’s obvious you’ve had too much to drink.